"can't we all just get along"
sarc/off
Posted on 11/05/2009 5:55:13 PM PST by markomalley
Thursday's shootings at Fort Hood army base in Texas -- which have left at least 11 people dead and 31 others wounded -- were of course the "horrific outburst of violence" that President Obama bemoaned and condemned Thursday.
But, because a soldier identified as one of the gunman had a name that led to the presumption that he was Muslim, and because he was facing an upcoming deployment to Iraq, the incident took on immediate and complex political overtones.
News reports identified the man who used two handguns in the assault on his fellow soldiers at a base that is a prime point of departure for troops headed to Iraq and Afghanistan as Major Malik Nidal Hasan. The major, who was killed during the incident, was reportedly a psychiatrist who had served in the Department of Psychology at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress at the Bethesda Naval Facility in Bethesda, Maryland, before his transfer to Fort Hood.
He was, according to Texas Senator Bailey Hutchinson, preparing to deploy to Iraq. However, the senator said, "I do know that he has been known to have told people that he was upset about going (to Iraq)."
Military officials at the base and in Washington refused to speculate about motivations or intents.
But right-wing web sites quickly exploded with speculation about a "Jihad at Fort Hood?" and a "Terrorist Incident in Texas."
Fox News host Shepard Smith asked Senator Hutchinson on air: "The names tells us a lot, does it not, senator?"
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
Did you also mention that the guy who killed that recruiter in Arkansas was a Muslim, too?
Ironic how all the right wing sites turned out to be correct.
The murderer had been a Muslim since birth as per his cousin in the interview with Shep Smith.
John Nichols, YOU LIE!
Well said.
"can't we all just get along"
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WOW....FOX REPORTING “SHOOTER “ STILL ALIVE!!!!
Cool.
Not only did someone get to shoot him, we can save him for later killin.
Say it again. Liberals hate hearing facts.
If weapons are outlawed only outlaws will have weapons..
how much you wanna bet CAIR and the ACLU knew he wasn’t dead before we knew?
And Obama can not blame it on president Bush and say it’s Bush’s fault, this happened on Obama’s watch.
FOX was the last network to name the murderer. Why bash Muslims clearly the guy was a Mormon.
That’s because the man is a BLACK MAN ...
What’s ironic is that Janet Napolitano of Home Land Security would not label this as a terrorist act because of the man’s “ Peaceful Religion “ but, if it was a right winger, Home Land Security would label them as domestic terrorist.
There does seem to be a tendency for serial killers to be white but not all are and it irritates me when they refuse to label a black man a serial killer.
Any profiler will tell you that only white men are serial killers.
If guns are kept out of honest hands, what you’re most likely to get will be “more f*gging,” which you’re not likely to enjoy.
Crazy ain’t it .....
>>If all weapons had been banned on the military base, this tragedy would not have occurred.<<
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If all had carried a weapon, this tragedy would not have happened either. And 0 wants us to give up our means to protect ourselves? Think about it.
Yeah, that's what we need: a military with no weapons!
LOL!
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